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It didn't turn to jazz until the late 1980's but has made up for the later entry by releasing a horn of plenty recording of top mainstream jazz artists. Even when they decided to try jazz, they were ...
Composer, author and still-active jazz musician Mark Harvey details all of these developments (and more) in a profusely illustrated, exhaustively annotated 80-page book that accompanies The Boston ...
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) Between the first two electric albums Miles Davis recorded, this one and In A Silent Way (1969), for many jazz rock fans, it is hard to distinguish which one had ...
Jazz is jumping up, for sure — though not always where you expect it to, and certainly not in any predictable form. Some of the artists below wouldn’t call the music they make jazz at all.
J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan opens with Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One’s “Song of Island” and a storm of solo piano keys.
Two of the best jazz vocal albums released this year, against stiff competition, were the work of Vanisha Gould, who combines a blues cry with a storyteller's point of view.
This two-disc collection of live concerts from the Montreux Festival between 1968-90 is one of the few albums that capture the great and tragic singer-pianist Nina Simone in all her dimensions ...
2019 looks set to be the scene's biggest year yet, so we decided to collate the 10 essential London jazz albums to serve as a primer on the sound and its origins. Dig in below.